Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism.
Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism examines the work of award-winning American novelist and short story writer Richard Ford, and places it firmly in the context of contemporary debates about the role and meaning of literary realism in a postmodern environment. In this fresh study of Ford's oe...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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University of Iowa Press,
2014.
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Series: | New American canon.
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Summary: | Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism examines the work of award-winning American novelist and short story writer Richard Ford, and places it firmly in the context of contemporary debates about the role and meaning of literary realism in a postmodern environment. In this fresh study of Ford's oeuvre, Ian McGuire argues that Ford's work is best understood as a form of pragmatic realism and thus positions him as part of a deeply rooted and ongoing American debate about the nature of realism and pragmatism. This debate, which reaches back to transcendentalist thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson a. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (162 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781609383435 1609383435 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |